That Marvel SATA controller is PCI-X and would "walk on one leg" in a regular PCI slot. It could be superior if you are connecting many SATA drives and have a lot of data being moved / copied beween drives.

https://www.areca.com.tw/chinaweb/products/pcix.htm

Like I said ai don’t know much about these but they apparently are among the best performing pci on some comparisons I found long ago. I’ve been searching for one for some time. Goal is fastest on pci. And to get a cool card for the collection.

But apparently it is based on a intel processor.

I’m hoping for a decent amount of cpu offloading.

Past this, I will need to experiment with scsi. But while scsi and controllers are pretty nice, ssd options for it are lacking where as I can go straight for modern sata m.2 with this.

How fast is your current fastest solution ?

I’ll try to get some benchmarks.

I’ll test it on my 66/400mhz k6-3+ tyan s1564d setup.

On my freeway ultra with 100/600mhz I can probably do better but it isn’t set up at the moment.

Here's my TXP4 with a K6-3+ @ 500 MHz & 256 megabytes of SDRAM with a Sil3114 SATA card and a basic TeamGroup 120 meg SSD.

Your latest toy will have much better performance, really.

The consumer PCI to SATA is dumb chips just to meet demand.

Cheers,

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-12-04, 19:39:

I’ll try to get some benchmarks.

I’ll test it on my 66/400mhz k6-3+ tyan s1564d setup.

On my freeway ultra with 100/600mhz I can probably do better but it isn’t set up at the moment.

I wouldn't be too sure - my MVP3 boards lag behind my TXP4 in hard drive speed when measured with ATTO with very similar cards and drives in spite of higher bus speeds and CPU clock speeds. These are both with a Promise Ultra 100 IDE card.

Too true in specific cases as you said previously.

Cheers,

Does these improve boot times with 98 on a K6?

I hope so 😀 but drivers might be an issue

Here is win ME on the tyan m.2 sata on tx4 sata II this os doesn’t have a driver so much as it kinda just knows what to call it and doesn’t complain from my understanding so with a real driver this may be better.

Did you try this driver: https://us.driverscollection.com/?H=88SX6081&By=Marvell
probably not the correct one but could not hurt...

I haven’t put the card in yet. That last pic was the tx4

So no 9x driver huh? 🙁

I’ll try it without a driver see how it does

Lol this card has about the specs that the system does 🤣

I had to set the controller to jbod before it would boot and it doesn’t seem to support cd drives which is a bummer but no biggie.

Running windows ME test with no driver. Let’s see what it’s got without drivers. 😀

It honestly does feel faster booting and moving around windows. Dang.

Okay here we go, it is definitely better.

Now to get a 9x driver… or at least failing that, get windows to stop bothering me for a driver…?

You might find something here: https://areca.starline.de/RaidCards/BIOS_Firm … oducts/ARC1160/

Thanks 😀

Any ideas why our transfer speeds look so different? Because of driver? Seems weird that it isn’t a nice parabola like repoman’s

I’m sure that 83mhz fsb is helping :p I’m at 66mhz

This is probably a bit of a closer match: a PCChips M520 running a K6-3+ @ 450 MHz (6x75), VX chipset, EDO RAM, with a Sil3114 SATA PCI card and a Seagate hybrid drive. I also tried an SSD, but there was so little difference in speed (because of the system being the choke point) that I thought this would be a good home for the hybrid drive. Someone posted results of a VX chipset board with SDRAM, and the memory bandwidth results were much closer to my TXP4. Sad that SDRAM DIMMs that will work with the VX chipset are so very rare.

I got these speeds from a Promise SATA/150 adapter on my SS7 machine. iirc I had a small 5 mb/s improvement over this after I installed VIA PCI patches but this pic is from before those patches.

This is what you need.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-RAM

😁